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by bgriirtuh 1334 days ago
Can you provide a reference for the claim that the concept of a freely postulated axiom system was implicit in Eudoxus? I'm very curious!

I assume the 19th century rediscovery you refer to was Boole, Hamilton et al and their work in logic and the beginnings of abstract algebra.

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I think it's in Lucio Rosso's The Forgotten Revolution but I don't have the page number yet.
Haven't found it yet...